{"id":172689,"date":"2023-09-24T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-worlds-northernmost-solar-farm-is-about-to-come-online"},"modified":"2023-09-24T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:23:10","slug":"the-worlds-northernmost-solar-farm-is-about-to-come-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-worlds-northernmost-solar-farm-is-about-to-come-online","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s northernmost solar farm is about to come online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-northernmost-solar-farm-is-about-to-come-online2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norway has installed the world\u2019s northernmost solar farm and battery storage in the Svalbard archipelago, just south of the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned energy company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snsk.no\/\">Store Norske Energi<\/a> installed the solar and storage at Isfjord Radio on the island of Spitsbergen, the largest and the only permanently populated island in the archipelago, and the solar farm is expected to come online tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Isfjord was built as a radio station in 1933 to provide a communication link between the Svalbard archipelago and Norway\u2019s mainland. It\u2019s still a radio station and a weather station, and now there\u2019s a hotel for tourists and researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway has installed the world\u2019s northernmost solar farm and battery storage in the Svalbard archipelago, just south of the North Pole. State-owned energy company Store Norske Energi installed the solar and storage at Isfjord Radio on the island of Spitsbergen, the largest and the only permanently populated island in the archipelago, and the solar farm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}